POTATOES

REPORT
ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF humic and organic fertilizers in field experiments with potatoes
(Training and Experimental, Soil and Environmental Center "Chashnikovo")
As a part of the annual program of research of the Faculty of Soil Science, Moscow State University, MSU
Department of Chemistry of Soil and Department of land resources and land assessment conducted summer field
trials of a number of humic substances and organic fertilizers in June and August 2014 at the experimental fields
of the Training and Experimental, Soil and Environmental Center "Chashnikovo".
The purpose of the tests - to evaluate the effectiveness of the impact of humic substances and organic fertilizers
produced in Russia from different raw materials (peat, brown coal, compost, waste wood, etc) on the growth
and development of crops.
Test objects - humic preparations "Extra" ("Agrotechnologies", Ltd.) from brown coal; "Lignohumate"
("Lignohumate", Ltd.) from waste wood; "SVT" ("Company SVT", Ltd.) from peat. Concentrations of stock
solutions of humates: 50 g / l.

Preparation "Biohumate EBG", produced by the company "Flora M" was passing the test as a sample of the
organic fertilizer. "Biohumate EBG" - is the result of processing of cattle compost by Californian red worm.
Options of field test for humic preparations:
5. Control;
6. Processing by humate "Extra";
7. Processing by humate "SVT";
8. Processing by humate "Lignohumate".
Field test with humates founded on October, 06, 2014. The test laid in twelve replicates.

Stages of processing of planting material by humates:

3. Processing tubers - 0.5 liter of working solution per kg of tubers. The working solution was prepared by
dilution 0.2 l of stock solutions humate in 10 l of water;

4. Two-time processing of crops. 1st phase to the appearance of 5-7 leaves, 2nd in the budding stage. The dose of
the working solution - 300 l / ha (0.7 L on experimental plots). The working solution was prepared by diluting
0.2 liters of stock solutions of humates in 10 liters of water.
Scheme of the test.
CONTROL
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Designations. Experimental Playground - part of the ridge size 0.75 2 m with planting material (potatos
tubers). Experimental plot size: 2,25 10 meters (22.5 m2).
Field test with the use of "Biohumate EBG" was founded on June, 26, 2014. When planting tubers on the bottom
of the hole on the experimental plots, a certain dose of organic fertilizer "Biohumate EBG" was added.
Experienced plots (size - 1.12 m2) alternated with the control ones in a checkerboard pattern, leaving a border (
not sown) plots furrows (0.5 m). Repeated tests - 12-fold. Test options:
I - control;

II - made 150 g of "Biohumate EBG";

III - made 300 g of "Biohumate EBG".
The test were run by Mz. Cherkashina N.F., s.n.s. of the Laboratory of soil-ecological monitoring UO PEP
"Chashnikovo". Cultivated crops: - potatoes, variety "Bryansk novelty". Soil: - sod-podzolic well cultivated. The
material was used as seed tubers weighing about 50-80 g (the average fraction of the seed), pre-germinated for 15
days in a warm indoor unlit premises. Ridge planting performed to a depth of about 10 cm.
During the period of potato vegetation row treatments performed three times (tillage, weed removal, hilling). In
the first two weeks (before the start of tuber) the crops was watered in the morning 1 time in two days.
Harvesting was performed on August,19-20, 2014.
The discussion of the results.
Table 1 shows the average (for 12 repetitions) results of the definition of potato yield and some parameters of its
quality in the field test with the use of humic substances and organic fertilizer "Biohumate EBG".
As can be seen from the table - the largest crop was harvested from the experimental plots of test III, i.e. when
a double dose (compared to the manufacturer's recommendation) of organic fertilizer "Biohumate EBG" was
applied to the soil. Wherein potato yield increased by 60%. In test II (made of 150 g "Biohumate EBG") yield
increase was more than 30%. High rates of solids content, amounts of starch and sugars in potatoes confirm its
nutritional value.

Table 1
Potato yield
Test option

Control
Extra
SVT
Lignohumate
II (Biohumate - 150 gr)
III (Biohumate - 300 gr)

Metric
centner/ha

% to
control

239
314
348
245
314
380

100
131
159
102
131
160

Dry matter
content, %

Starch content,
%

The carbohydrate
content, %

18,15
17,69
18,96
18,06
18,33
19,06

12,43
11,94
13,08
11,74
12,58
13,3

1,45
1,44
1,52
1,40
1,47
1,50

However, given that the growth of the potato crop was obtained by the introduction of significant amounts of
organic fertilizer (1.4 m and 2.7 m tonnes per hectare, respectively, for test options II and III), it should be
recognized that humic preparations from peat and brown coal showed much more effectiveness. Total
consumption of humate solutions for a yield increase of 31% (for a preparation "Extra") and 59% (for a
preparation "SVT") was less than 0.5 l / ha. It is important to note that the quality of the crop (dry matter content,
the amount of starch and sugars in the potato), the undisputed leader in testing is the humic preparation "SVT".
The worst result - both in terms of yield and product quality - was obtained in the application of the humic
preparation "Lignohumate".

Conclusions and recommendations. The results of field tests confirm the high quality of organic fertilizer
"Biohumate EBG" ("Flora L", Ltd.) and humic substances "Extra" and "SVT" as growth accelerator and source
for crop nutrition.
Recommended application doses of organic fertilizer "Biohumate EBG" when planting potatoes - 150 grams per
hole.
Recommended doses for processing by humates:
3. Processing tubers - 0.5 liter of working solution per kg of tubers. The working solution was prepared by
diluting 0.2 liter of stock solutions of humates in10 liters of water;
4. Two-time processing of crops. 1st phase to the appearance of 5-7 leaves, 2nd in the budding stage. The dose of
the working solution - 300 l / ha (0.7 L on experimental plots). The working solution was prepared by diluting
0.2 liter of stock solutions of humates in 10 liters of water.